Anyone using satellite broadband, if so what is your opinion of it? I'm thinking of getting the Tooway 12 system and wondered what other users thought of it.

My daughter uses satellite broadband as she stays in the middle of nowhere, not sure what one but she reports it is very very slow and expensive

If you can try a Wimax type option as there are a few companies touting it at the minute. Sat broadband is very very slow, even military ones arent that much faster really and nothing like the reported little pop up sat dish's brodcastings a nice video/audio link back to HQ...(unless they are the really really pricey ones and are important enough to get dedicated bandwith(think operations like the bin laden raid)...

Really for the price a few dailup lines would be better or ISDN is still plodding along and they offer homehighway i think in some areas

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I've not looked at the Wimax system only Tooway which goes up to 18mbps download and 6mbps upload speeds which is very fast compared to my present speeds. I realise the latency is much longer as the initial "ping" takes 10 times as long due to it having to travel to the satellite and back, but from then on the speed is allegedly much faster.

As for an increase in current speed BT have no intention on improving this (0.48mbps download and 0.24mbps upload) which is the reason for researching satellite broadband.

The Tooway system is provides both downlink and uplink so no telephone connection needed. I understand this is a fairly new system and not comparable with previous satellite systems, not that I know anything about the subject apart from the Tooway adverts say.

47p2, I'd be interested in knowing what system your daughter uses as the advertised speeds sound good and the price would be double why I'm paying now for BT broadband.

Nesting is the answer kingpleb by the way.

I've not looked at the Wimax system only Tooway which goes up to 18mbps download and 6mbps upload speeds which is very fast compared to my present speeds. I realise the latency is much longer as the initial "ping" takes 10 times as long due to it having to travel to the satellite and back, but from then on the speed is allegedly much faster.

As for an increase in current speed BT have no intention on improving this (0.48mbps download and 0.24mbps upload) which is the reason for researching satellite broadband.

The Tooway system is provides both downlink and uplink so no telephone connection needed. I understand this is a fairly new system and not comparable with previous satellite systems, not that I know anything about the subject apart from the Tooway adverts say.

47p2, I'd be interested in knowing what system your daughter uses as the advertised speeds sound good and the price would be double why I'm paying now for BT broadband.

Nesting is the answer kingpleb by the way.

I'll ask and get back to you

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Can you not get the radio broadband also known as tv white space as it uses the frequency that the old analogue tv systems used I know of a company using this system in Pembrokeshire and know bt are trialing it for regions such as yours
Hope this may help a little
Roger

47p2 wrote:

I'll ask and get back to you

Thanks.

RCusden wrote:

Can you not get the radio broadband also known as tv white space as it uses the frequency that the old analogue tv systems used I know of a company using this system in Pembrokeshire and know bt are trialing it for regions such as yours
Hope this may help a little
Roger

RCusden wrote:

Can you not get the radio broadband also known as tv white space as it uses the frequency that the old analogue tv systems used I know of a company using this system in Pembrokeshire and know bt are trialing it for regions such as yours
Hope this may help a little
Roger

If it were me I'd go with the tooway service

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Our offices are also in the sticks although only 13 miles from Bristol.Fed up with BTs useless service we went Tooways with a metre
diameter dish -- all I can tell you is that it works alot better for us than BT.
We contacted them and it was up and running within 24 hours.£50 per month but a business without decent bb is............

ISDN?
wow.
I had that at my house back in the late 80s / early 90s.
128K, baby!

My current provider is via the cable TV company; 12Mb/s up/down.

We have satellite for our TV service. If we use on-demand to watch a movie, the content is delivered over our 'net connection.
LOL! Bet the cable company loves that!

My in-laws live out in the sticks; DSL is the best they can get. It's only 1 or 2 Mb/s. Jim
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